It is the
VETERAN,
not the preacher,
who has given us freedom of religion.

It is
the VETERAN,
not the reporter,
who has given us freedom of the press.

It is
the VETERAN,
not the poet,
who has given us freedom of speech.

It is
the VETERAN,
not the campus organizer,
who has given us freedom to assemble.

It is
the VETERAN,
not the lawyer,
who has given us the right to a fair trial.

It is
the VETERAN,
not the politician,
Who has given us the right to vote.

It is the
VETERAN who
salutes the Flag,

It is
the
VETERAN
who serves
under the Flag,

ETERNAL REST GRANT THEM O LORD,
AND LET PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON THEM.

We can be very
proud of our young men and women in the service no matter where they serve.
And I’m one of them whose proud to be an AMERICAN…

God
Bless them all!!!

Makes you proud to be an AMERICAN!!!!

“In order to live happily and free, you may have to sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.”

~Richard Bach

On the back in large bold print is a list of political candidates whom this ill named committee “Respectfully Recommends the Following Candidates who Have Been Interviewed and Endorsed” and an offer for a ride to the polls on 5/4/2010. I’m all for giving people a ride to the polls, no issue there. I’m all for educating anyone who can’t get the information themselves BUT to outright tell people to vote because a committee says so… BOOM! I lost it. What kind of twisted sideways pig to slaughter type crap is this? Someone explain this insanity! I tried to call the number listed to give them a piece of my mind… no answer, no machine.. gee, I’m shocked.

Grrrr…..

“Dare to dream, dare to try, dare to fail – dare to succeed.”

G Kinsley Wood

With these five elements I went about raising my family to be productive responsible adults  that would make a positive impact on the world. My daughter will be 21 in August, Allowed her to come back home 4 times to get her self  together since leaving home at 18 because her choice was leave or be honest with us what happened when we were at work. She chose to leave. At this point in her life no job, 8th grade GED education, no drivers license (doesn’t know how to drive), no medical yet (trying to get medicaid) relying on others to take her places and has no will to put forth the effort it will take to survive.

My son who just turned 18 who has not been home since turning 14 because he like his sister did not want to be honest to the people that mattered the most has been in and out of the system of staying with relatives, jail, level three group homes, level two group home and now couch surfing. Has a job (he’s a male he’d better dick is free pussy costs), 9th grade GED education, knows how to drive but no license. Has all the great ideas in the world but no follow through and follows  the wrong types of influences. He has managed to go from level two group home, turn 18, get kicked out of roommate set up, refuse help from said level two  group home and get his girlfriend kicked out as well in three days.

My only hope is that at some point all the sacrificing their mother and I did will matter enough to kick start their brains and they will grab their ears and pull with all their might until they hear a vigorous pop. Because they are really suffering from a sever case of Rectal cranial insertion.

67-year-old-white-man-beats-up-a-loud-mouthed-thug-something-tough-video

~Oprah

~Grind Master

A brain waker-upper for today!
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This is fun… interesting.  Enjoy!

Color Test

The following is reportedly an actual question given on a University of Washington
chemistry mid term.

The answer by one student was so ‘profound’ that the professor shared it
with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, is why we now have
the pleasure of enjoying it as well:

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs
heat)?

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle’s Law (gas
cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant.

One student, however, wrote the following:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time.. So we
need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at
which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul
gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for
how many souls are entering Hell, let’s look at the different religions
that exist in the world today.

Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their
religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these
religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can
project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are,
we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now,
we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle’s Law
states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the
same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.

This gives two possibilities:

1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter
Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all
Hell breaks loose.

2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in
Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it?

If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year
that, ‘It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you,’ and take
into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number two
must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already
frozen over! The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen
over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore,
extinct……..leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a
divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting ‘Oh my
God.’

THIS STUDENT RECEIVED AN A+

And just because I like it sooo much….

Why do bands have bass players?
To translate for the drummer.

Births
1950 – Chris Stein, American guitarist (Blondie)
1953 – Steve Archer, American singer (The Archers)
1953 – Pamela Sue Martin, American actress
1953 – George Tenet, American CIA director
1954 – Alex English, American basketball player
1959 – Clancy Brown, American actor
1962 – Danny Jackson, American baseball player
1963 – Jeff Fassero, American baseball player
1964 – Grant Young, American drummer (Soul Asylum)
1966 – Kate Schellenbach, American drummer (Luscious Jackson)
1967 – Joe Flanigan, American actor
1968 – Ricky Paull Goldin, American actor
1968 – Carrie Ann Inaba, American dancer and choreographer
1969 – Marilyn Manson, American singer
1975 – Bradley Cooper, American actor
1975 – Warrick Dunn, American football player
1975 – Mike Grier, American ice hockey player
1976 – Matt Wachter, American bassist (30 Seconds to Mars)
1978 – January Jones, American actress
1978 – Sabrina Harman, American military figure and accused torturer
1980 – Bennie Joppru, American football player
1981 – Brooklyn Sudano, American actress
1983 – Sean Dockery, American basketball player
1984 – Amanda Hearst, American heiress and model
1986 – J. P. Arencibia, American baseball player
1987 – Kristin Cavallari, American actress
1999 – Marc Yu, American musician

Deaths
1954 – Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player (b. 1891)
1963 – Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player (b. 1896)
1970 – Max Born, German physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)
1976 – Mal Evans, Beatles’ “roadie” (b. 1935)
1978 – Wyatt Cooper, American screenwriter (b. 1927)
1979 – Charles Mingus, American musician (b. 1922)
1981 – Harold C. Urey, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1893)
1982 – Hans Conried, American actor (b. 1917)
1982 – Harvey Lembeck, American actor (b. 1923)
1985 – Robert L. Surtees, American Oscar-winning cinematographer (Ben-Hur) (b. 1906)
1988 – Pete Maravich, American basketball player (b. 1947)
1990 – Arthur Kennedy, American actor (b. 1914)
1994 – Tip O’Neill, American politician (b. 1912)
1996 – Lincoln Kirstein, American writer, impresario, art connoisseur (b. 1907)
1997 – Burton Lane, American composer and lyricist (b. 1912)
1998 – Sonny Bono, American entertainer and politician (b. 1935)
1998 – Ken Forssi, American musician (Love) (b. 1943)
2001 – Nancy Parsons, American actress (b. 1942)
2003 – Jean Kerr, American author (b. 1923)
2004 – Tug McGraw, American baseball player, father of Tim McGraw (b. 1944)
2004 – Norman Heatley, member of the team of Oxford University scientists who developed penicillin (b. 1911)
2005 – Danny Sugerman, American music manager (The Doors) (b. 1954)
2007 – Chih Ree Sun, Chinese-American physicist and poet (b. 1923)
2009 – Ned Tanen, American movie executive (b. 1931)
2010 – Rory Markas, Angels baseball announcer (b.1955)

What do you call a bunch of blonds standing in a row?  Wind Tunnel

What do you call a bunch of blonds at the bottom of a pool?  Air Pocket

What do you call a bunch of blonds in the freezer?  Frosted Flakes

What do you call a blond with one brain cell?  Gifted

What do you call a blond with two brain cells?  Pregnant

What do you call a brunette between two blonds?  Interpreture

1907 – A group of 239 coal miners die during a mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.
1909 – Football club Borussia Dortmund is founded.
1912 – William H. Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over 1,000 people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after three-and-a-half-years in Sing Sing prison.
1916 – World War I: Battle of Verdun – On the Western Front, the French Army successfully holds off the German Army and drives it back to its starting position.
1920 – King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander I of Greece and a plebiscite.
1924 – The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.
1932 – BBC World Service begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service
1941 – World War II: Adolf Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the German Army.
1946 – Start of the First Indochina War.
1961 – India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India.
1967 – Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt is officially presumed dead.
1972 – Apollo program: The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.
1975 – John Paul Stevens is appointed a justice of The United States Supreme Court.
1981 – Sixteen lives are lost when the Penlee lifeboat goes to the aid of the stricken coaster Union Star in heavy seas.
1983 – The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro.
1984 – The Sino-British Joint Declaration, stating that the People’s Republic of China would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong and the United Kingdom would restore Hong Kong to China with effect from July 1, 1997 is signed in Beijing by Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher.
1986 – Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev releases Andrei Sakharov and his wife from internal exile in Gorky.
1995 – The United States Government restores federal recognition to the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Indian tribe.
1997 – SilkAir Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104.
1998 – Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives forwards articles I and III of impeachment against President Bill Clinton to the Senate.
2000 – The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack a Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul, killing one person and injuring three.
2001 – A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl Province, Mongolia.
2001 – Argentine economic crisis: December 2001 riots – Riots erupt in Buenos Aires.

Births

1899 – Martin Luther King, Sr., American baptist minister and father of Civil Rights activist, Martin Luther King, Jr (d. 1984)
1901 – Rudolf Hell, German inventor (d. 2002)
1902 – Sir Ralph Richardson, English actor (d. 1983)
1903 – George Davis Snell, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1996)
1905 – Irving Kahn, American financial analyst and investor
1906 – Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union (d. 1982)
1907 – Jimmy McLarnin, former Welterweight Champion (d. 2004)
1909 – W.A. Criswell, American (Baptist) preacher (d. 2002)
1910 – Jean Genet, French writer (d. 1986)
1915 – Édith Piaf, French singer and actress (d. 1963)
1916 – Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, German political scientist
1916 – Roy Ward Baker, English film director
1918 – Professor Longhair, American blues musician (d. 1980)
1920 – Little Jimmy Dickens, American country singer
1920 – David Susskind, American TV talk show host (d. 1987)
1922 – Eamonn Andrews, Irish-born television presenter (d. 1987)
1923 – Gordon Jackson, Scottish actor (d. 1990)
1924 – Carlo Chiti, Italian race car engineer (d. 1994)
1924 – Doug Harvey, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1989)
1924 – Gary Morton, American comic; widower of Lucille Ball (d. 1999)
1924 – Edmund Purdom, English actor (d. 2009)
1925 – Tankred Dorst, German dramatist
1925 – Robert B. Sherman, American songwriter
1925 – William Schutz, American psychologist (d. 2002)
1926 – Bobby Layne, American football player (d. 1986)
1926 – Herb Stempel, American game show contestant
1927 – James Booth, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2005)
1928 – Nathan Oliveira, American artist
1929 – Bob Brookmeyer, American jazz musician
1929 – Howard Sackler, American screenwriter (d. 1982)
1932 – Salvador Elizondo, Mexican writer
1933 – Kevan Gosper, Australian athlete
1933 – Cicely Tyson, American actress
1934 – Rudi Carrell, Dutch singer (d. 2006)
1934 – Al Kaline, American baseball player
1934 – Casper R. Taylor, Jr., American politician
1934 – Pratibha Patil, President of India
1935 – Barbara Bostock, American actress
1935 – Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (d. 1974)
1936 – Marian McKnight, Miss America 1957
1940 – Phil Ochs, American folk singer (d. 1976)
1941 – Maurice White, American singer and songwriter (Earth, Wind & Fire)
1941 – Lee Myung-bak, President of South Korea
1942 – Rufus, French actor
1943 – Ross M. Lence, American political scientist (d. 2006)
1943 – General James L. Jones, Nominee for National Security Advisor
1944 – William Christie, American-born director of Les Arts Florissants
1944 – Mitchell Feigenbaum, American mathematical physicist
1944 – Richard Leakey, Kenyan paleontologist, conservationist and politician
1944 – Alvin Lee, English singer/guitarist (Ten Years After)
1944 – Tim Reid, American actor
1944 – Zal Yanovsky, Canadian guitarist (The Lovin’ Spoonful) (d. 2002)
1945 – Elaine Joyce, American actress
1946 – Rosemary Conley, English businesswoman, author and broadcaster
1946 – Robert Urich, American actor (d. 2002)
1947 – Jimmy Bain Scottish musician
1948 – Ken Brown, Canadian ice hockey player
1949 – Nancy Kyes, American actress
1949 – Sebastian, Danish musician
1951 – Alan Rouse, British mountaineer (d. 1986)
1952 – Walter Murphy, American composer, pianist and arranger
1955 – Lincoln Hall (climber), Australian mountaineer
1956 – Tom Lawless, American baseball player
1957 – Cyril Collard, French film director (d. 1993)
1957 – John Gulager, American film director
1957 – Kevin McHale, American basketball player
1958 – Limahl, English singer (Kajagoogoo)
1959 – Ivan Vallejo, Ecuadorian mountaineer
1960 – Mike Lookinland, American actor
1960 – Michelangelo Signorile, American writer
1960 – Derrick Jensen, American author and activist
1961 – Eric Allin Cornell, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1961 – Matthew Waterhouse, English actor
1961 – Reggie White, American football player (d. 2004)
1962 – Gary Fleder, American film director
1962 – Jill Talley, American actress
1963 – Jennifer Beals, American actress
1963 – Til Schweiger, German actor
1964 – Arvydas Sabonis, Lithuanian basketball player
1964 – Béatrice Dalle, French actress
1965 – Chito Martínez, Belizean baseball player
1965 – Jessica Steen, American actress
1966 – Chuckii Booker, American singer, musician and producer
1966 – Robert MacNaughton, American stage and screen actor
1966 – Alberto Tomba, Italian alpine skier
1966 – Eric Weinrich, American ice hockey player
1967 – Criss Angel, American illusionist, actor, and musician
1967 – Frankie Lam, Hong Kong actor
1969 – Richard Hammond, English television presenter
1969 – Tom Gugliotta, American basketball player
1969 – Kristy Swanson, American actress
1969 – Villano IV, Mexican professional wrestler
1971 – Tyson Beckford, American model
1971 – Liz Cho, American television reporter
1971 – Amy Locane, American actress
1972 – Alyssa Milano, American actress
1972 – Rosa Blasi, American actress
1972 – Warren Sapp, American football player
1973 – Takashi Sorimachi, Japanese actor
1973 – Zulfiya Zabirova, Russian cyclist
1974 – Mikko Paananen, Finnish bassist (HIM)
1974 – Joe Jurevicius, American football player
1974 – Jake Plummer, American football player
1974 – Ricky Ponting, Australian cricketer
1975 – Russell Branyan, American baseball player
1975 – Jon Smith, British writer
1975 – Olivier Tebily, Ivorian footballer
1977 – Jorge Garbajosa, Spanish basketball player
1978 – Patrick Casey, American screenwriter and actor
1979 – Kevin Devine, American musician
1979 – Paola Rey, Colombian actress
1980 – Iman Ali, Pakistan-based model and actress
1980 – Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor
1980 – Chris Haslam, Canadian Skateboarder and Bass Player (Kobra Triangle)
1980 – Marla Sokoloff, American actress
1982 – Maurice Williams, American basketball player
1982 – Tero Pitkamaki, Finnish javelin thrower
1983 – Matt Stajan, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 – Ian Kennedy, Major League Baseball pitcher
1985 – Gary Cahill, English footballer
1985 – Neil Kilkenny, English-born Australian footballer
1985 – Lady Sovereign, English musician
1986 – Ryan Babel, Dutch Footballer
1987 – Karim Benzema, French footballer
1988 – Peter Winn, English footballer
1988 – Alexis Sánchez, Chilean footballer
1989 – Valdimar Bergstað, Icelandic horse rider
1991 – Declan Galbraith, English singer

Deaths

1915 – Alois Alzheimer, German neuroscientist (b. 1864)
1932 – Yoon Bong-Gil, Korean activist (b. 1908)
1933 – George Jackson Churchward, British locomotive engineer. (b. 1857)
1938 – Stephen Warfield Gambrill, American politician (b. 1873)
1939 – Hans Langsdorff, German naval officer (b. 1894)
1944 – Khedive Abbas II of Egypt (b. 1874)
1944 – Rudolph Karstadt, German entrepreneur (b. 1856)
1946 – Paul Langevin, French physicist (b. 1872)
1953 – Robert Millikan, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1868)
1968 – Norman Thomas, American socialist (b. 1884)
1982 – Dwight Macdonald, American social critic (b. 1906)
1984 – Joy Ridderhof, American missionary (b. 1903)
1986 – V. C. Andrews, American author (b. 1923)
1989 – Stella Gibbons, English author (b. 1902)
1991 – Joe Cole, American rock music roadie (b. 1961)
1993 – Michael Clarke, American drummer (The Byrds) (b. 1946)
1996 – Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (b. 1924)
1997 – Masaru Ibuka, Japanese industrialist (Sony) (b. 1908)
1997 – Jimmy Rogers, American blues guitarist (b. 1924)
1998 – Mel Fisher, American treasure hunter (b. 1922)
1998 – Antonio Ordóñez, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1932)
1999 – Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (b. 1914)
2000 – Rob Buck, American guitarist (10,000 Maniacs) (b. 1958)
2000 – Milt Hinton, American jazz double bassist (b. 1910)
2000 – John Lindsay, American politician (b. 1921)
2000 – Pops Staples, American singer (The Staple Singers) (b. 1915)
2000 – David Dewayne Johnson, American convicted murderer (b. 1963)
2001 – Marcel Mule, French saxophonist. (b. 1901)
2002 – Arthur Rowley, English footballer. (b. 1926)
2003 – Peter Carter-Ruck, English lawyer (b. 1914)
2003 – Hope Lange, American actress (b. 1933)
2003 – Les Tremayne, English-born American actor (b. 1913)
2004 – Herbert C. Brown, English-born American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
2004 – Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (b. 1922)
2005 – Keith Duckworth, English mechanical engineer (Cosworth) (b. 1933)
2005 – Vincent Gigante, American mafioso (b. 1927)
2008 – James Bevel, American Civil Rights activist (b. 1936)
2008 – Kenny Cox, American jazz musician (b. 1940)
2008 – Dock Ellis, American baseball pitcher (b. 1945)
2008 – Carol Chomsky, American linguist (b. 1930)